Similar imaging parameters were used, including laser voltage, gain, offset and scanning speed, to ensure any differences were not an artifact of altered image acquisition settings.
Because inactivity of respiratory muscles and absence of dynamic hyperinflation were ensured, any difference in expired volume with and without a deflated cuff should be entirely due to gas leak around the endotracheal tube during expiration (pause cuff leak).
All three cell lines equivalently expressed thrombin, TF, CD44, αvβ5 and β1 integrins, therefore ensuring any differences in behavior observed were due to differences in OPN and not to differences in OPN-related proteins.
19 Therefore safeguards need to be in place during wider implementation to ensure that patients are measuring their BP accurately throughout their time using this system and to ensure that any difference in BP between two arms that does exist is appropriately managed.
These will require the excellent reproducibility provided by λ and ECV to ensure that any difference detected between scans is attributed to the intervention.
The identical EMG signals for the moving hand, in the direct view and mirror view conditions, ensure that any difference in cerebral activation is not due to differences in force, amplitude, or duration of the movements.
Thus, adequate controls were in place to ensure that any difference in the levels of Cr on children's hands between CCA and non-CCA playgrounds could be attributed to the type of playground.
Care was taken to ensure that the barrel with the largest field EPSP was selected to ensure that any differences between layers were not due to different lateral spread of TC inputs.
Adding both components ensured that any difference in catalytic activity did not arise from different abilities of the two species to generate amine acceptors from a fermentable carbon source.
To ensure that any differences detected in comparisons were not related to the different sizes of fish in the FA and UA treatments, we used FL as a co-variate in analyses of stomach content weight, condition and parasite loads.
